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One campaign contribution filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission over the past 48 hours stands out from the others. See if you can pick it out below:
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With yesterday's gift of $3.9 million, financier Rex Sinquefield has now given in ex...

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Thanks to some last minute ticket sales, the Rams game Sunday will be televised on KTVI (Channel 2). Kick off is at noon.
The Rams had faced the possibility of having their first game of the season blacked out due to a lack of ticket sales. As th...

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Darren Thomas, 36 of the 4000 block of Nara Drive, was assassinated yesterday evening in Windsor Park in north St. Louis (below).
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Thomas was discovered around 6:15 p.m. lying in the grass dead from bullet wounds to the head, chest, stomac...

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If you're looking to pick up tomorrow's Saturday edition of the Post-Dispatch at area stores and newsstands, fuhgeddaboutit.
The paper announced this week that, effective tomorrow, the Saturday paper will no longer be for sale at retailers on a s...

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Smith (right) in flight.
When Riverfront Times last checked in with Ronnie Smith, the Air Force colonel and poet was working on several projects relating to Antarctica, where he had served for twelve years. (See "Poetry in a Cold Climate", January...

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This Saturday night was supposed to be Lure nightclub's last hurrah, but a judge ruled today that they can stay open for the time being.
Despite the recent (and controversial) campaign by City Hall, neighboring businesses
and private residents t...

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"Now that's the way a meeting should be!" cracked tenth ward alderman Joseph Vollmer on his way out of the weekly gathering of city leaders. "Twelve minutes has to be a new record. And if it wasn't for the announcements it would have been ten minut...

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Jered Winters
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A twenty-year-old man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and first-degree assault in a bizarre hunting mishap yesterday in Byrnes Mill, Missouri -- some 25 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Jared Winters was reportedly hu...

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One down, dozens more to go.
This week the Jennings City Council voted to turn over the reins of its police department to St. Louis County law officers. The move followed the revelation that Jennings police misused tens of thousands of d...

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HAPPY FISCAL NEW YEAR!!
Today, October 1, marks the first day of the fiscal year, or, as the kids in the hood call it, FY'11. Thanks to the U.S. Congress, the government didn't completely shut down at midnight. A mi...

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The two brothers charged with using their auto-warranty business like a personal ATM -- withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars each week to fund their lavish lifestyles -- have reached a settlement with the creditors of their bankrupt company.
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By contrast, coal accounts for more than 80 percent of Missouri's energy.
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For many environmentalists, the phrase "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms on par with "military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp." But to the Department of Energy, E...

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When Katherine Bish saw a news photo of an oil-slicked pelican after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, she did something about it. She doused people in chocolate syrup, to be exact. Bish's black-and-white photographs attempt to capture the tragedy...

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The masses have spoken, and "Hagar the Horrible" and "In The Bleachers" are being stricken from the funny papers at the Post-Dispatch.
The online poll gathered opinions from 16,212 readers--cranky nerds all, if the comments section on the P-D stor...

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St. Vincent's Hospital (aka Castle Park Apartments) as seen in the film Haunted Boy.
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The owners of the former St. Vincent's Mental Hospital (now a subsidized housing project called "Castle Park Apartments") have withdrawn a request for a restrai...

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It seems logical that when someone's brain is starting to deteriorate, her family and friends who see her every day would be more likely to pick up on it rather than a doctor who does a screening once a year.
Now doctors at the Washington University...

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Jacques Hughes was working as a sheriff's deputy in 2006 when his colleague William "Patrick" Hill alerted him to a prank in the basement of the Civil Courts building. One of their superiors, Lt. Charlie Kraft, had hung a noose near a holding cell ...

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Calling him an "original Tea Partier" and someone who will do the "patriotic thing" in Congress, the St. Louis Tea Party has officially thrown its support to Ed Martin.
In the video below, St. Louis Tea Party founder Bill Hennessy adds that he'll ev...